I bought him a *brand new litterbox* today and filled it with crystal litter. Now he can't be upset that Mean Cats used the box first.
But I neeeeed him to use it before he's allowed out.
We *need* to know if I need to pay for more testing besides his legs. We need to know if his wounds picked something up that isn't causing a fever or vomiting.
He is So. Upset. My tinted windows, a cruel mockery of his inability to see outside. ::sighs:: so tempted to peel off that one panel, but then I'll have to stretch it perfectly and put it back on tomorrow.
In the meantime, Persian tea is cheaper than any incense or potpourri and smells so much better. I'm using up scraps to make tiny sachets to put in the drawers. Hand sewing only so the machine doesn't scare Roo.
The good Doctor has a fused vertebrae, which he was probably born with. He's also got some other issues like disc space narrowing, which is. . .. not good.
Especially because he's outdoors and screams and breaks stuff if he's inside. He isn't exactly a candidate for indoor life.
His meds were $120 today, plus the estimate from last week (around $800 or something, after thousands spent on Vash and Roo last month...)
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I've seen The Golden Girls off and off since at least toddler age. It was my grandmother's favourite show. Doesn't matter what's going on, the TV was hers if Golden Girls was on.
Sophia is the oldest, Dorothy's (Bea Arthur) mother.
Her face is different. Similar, similar enough. Eye structure is the wrong shape. Character is the same, the others are the same. Her face is completely different. That's a different person.
I’m reading a book on biofeedback trainings right now and they talk about this. The words “try” or “need” add pressure to stuff. Sometimes switching from “I need to calm down” or “I’m trying to slow my breathing” to “I’m allowing myself to calm down a little more with each exhale” or “I’m giving myself permission to slow my breathing” can be more helpful. There’s a difference between “try to relax the muscle” and “allow the muscle to soften” that is significant enough that for some people it can totally change the outcome of a relaxation exercise.
For other tips and tricks, instead of asking “why” you can’t change a thought/feeling (why being an offensive question, meaning it forces you to respond defensively - in this case defending the emotion you don’t like) you can ask “is there any leeway or wiggle room with this feeling/thought/belief for something else?” Oftentimes we know multiple things at once, and by allowing for a small amount of ambiguity we can start to accept the situation more fully.
I watched this guy yesterday, he was talking about why so many of us intellectualize all the time and get Stuck.
Like "why am I ____" is just the automatic reaction for some of us. It bypasses parts of our brains by giving an answer, allowing us to immediately Problem Solve... but then it's like the tension and the "rat chewing the wires of my brain" part of us never relaxes.
Maybe this can add to it?
Any particular books or videos welcome in comments. <3
back around march or so, i got a bunch of papers to fill out. i did that and submitted them online. it was an absolute hassle. they wanted me to go back through... i have to remember... (part of the reason I'm on disability...) EVERY doctor I've had for YEARS, all their info and what they treated me for, every job I've had in 10 years, etc.
good thing I keep that shit in an excel file.
last week, i got a letter that might be from wednesday. i get up to the mail hub every 2-3 days, so it isn't much earlier than wednesday, picked up on friday, 6/5.
it says I haven't filled out (unspecified) paperwork and unless I have it in by TODAY 6/8, they can cancel my disability payments.
there is no open paperwork on my online account. none. the site is actually pretty bare-bones for info, so it should have been easy to find. WHAT open paperwork?
i have been TRYING to call for an extension and to figure out wtf they're even talking about!
The phone number for the case worker doesn't have anyone answering, nor have I gotten a call back today. Calling the 'general number' without their extension doesn't reach anyone.
Calling the local office doesn't reach anyone AND the menus DON'T WORK!
That thing where it says "for this, press 2, for that, press 3..." Yeah, none of those actually work. What I can do is hit 1 to be sent a text link to set up an online account. I have that, thank you, it gives 0 answers, and also this is time-sensitive, innit.
so I called the office number a few times, trying different sequences in an attempt to get somewhere. no dice.
so now I'm calling the main SS call line. I typically wait 1-2 hours in these lines, or the phone hangs up on it's own because it's been on hold for too long.
most of the local offices now close at 4pm / 16:00. i don't know when "main social security" closes.
I started ~3pm. It's a few minutes to 4 now, so we'll see.
So. I called the main help desk. VERY fortunately, I got someone in only 20mins- highly unusual, but I'm grateful. They couldn't help but gave me a number for Determimations.
That office was actually very helpful and fast.
It looks like in late April, there was more paperwork and some doctors' offices never responded. That tracks. One of them took almost four months to resolve an insurance billing issue.
So the papers will be sent again. The caseworker will call by end of the week.
@fibro-memes posted this and yeah, I'm at the benefits stage.
Apparently I will get better from the genetic illness that tears apart everything in the body. Also these EXTENSIVE "redeterminations" are now to be done every year. Trump's admin is pushing for every 6 months.
i called SS Redeterminations again because it's been over a week and I haven't gotten that call back. I called the original office a few times and only left one or two messages.
Repeat messages clog voicemail boxes. Other people need to also leave those messages. Please do NOT leave a new message every single time you call these people. Maaaaybe leave one a week.
The second phone number I got last week actually reaches someone really quickly, and they looked into it.
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No new paperwork has arrived. It's been only 8 business days, but they insist that these letters arrive very quickly.
My last letter was dated 5/29, but arrived about 6/3 or 6/4. 6/5 was Friday. My deadline on there was before close on 6/8, which was Monday afternoon. SO. yeah lots of time there huh but OH-KAY. Yes, they are correct that 4 business days is decent arrival time. The gap between arrival time and response time is Lacking.
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Why wasn't any of this in the My Social Security portal?
Because they do not have access to anything on the Social Security website.
The Social Security Disability Redeterminations division has NO ACCESS to the Social Security website.
These are the people who can completely cut off my disability pension.
Which might also explain lack of callbacks.
With T-mobile, I had this issue where any doctors' or government office would call from an Avaya or Genysis system, which protects sensitive numbers for privacy by generating random 'mask' numbers, just like Google Phone. T-mobile has an internal spam filter that auto-blocks these. I cannot take that off. It is separate from their spam blocking service. No call would show in the call log. The phone would never ring. I would only know if I got a VM left- but the callback info either wouldn't work, or it would be far too late.
For example, one of my doctors would do phone calls if video quality was poor or a patient was unable to use it. But when T-mobile blocked the docs' outbound number, the masked one, I would "miss my appointment" by not picking up a call I never got. I'd have to call the OFFICE number back and make another appointment. Rinse, repeat.
So maybe that's the problem? Different carrier, same thing.
Nope, they don't use those anymore.
Okay. So..... .. .. .....? I usually leave the phone number multiple times on the same message, prefacing it slowly with "My number is..."
My phone number was changed over a year ago on the Social Security website. It's updated on other SS paperwork. Redeterminations does NOT have that info because they do not have access to it. They have info from years ago, the last time they reviewed my case.
Which means that even though I also left the current number on voicemails, they may only be calling the 'official' authorized number on my account AS THEY KNOW IT.
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christ. k. so. ... if the papers ain't here by next friday, next week, I'll call again.
they really don't respect the time of disabled people. your application can take up to 12 weeks. the specialist waitlist is 3 years. your assessment will be any time within the next 6 months. let us know if you cannot attend this appointment you waited 7 weeks for and we'll reschedule next year. we've decided to assess you at this time and day and you have to be available or any support you dared to apply for is not going to happen. and in between these long bouts of waiting you have to survive the everyday
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I have piles of postcards, envelopes, and all kinds of crafting/writing stuff from when I was an avid penpaller.
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Y'all, the 2026 Junque is everywhere. But here is my local gas station's display:
I have so many questions and I feel lile I should have been an investigative reporter for all the 4th of July shit in this part of Florida.
There's just some interesting mascots this year, I think.
Check out the weirdly muscular dog! Very America. It's a character I could see as a furry costume, if it were done by a grizzly 50-something motorcycle-loving leather daddy. JUST TRY TO TAKE IT!
We got eagles, a couple of them. But who's the C-grade Donkey Kong character? Like the bastard lovechild of Joe the Camel and a gorilla?
A few gas station attendants and I have decided it is Bigfoot! Whose foot is the 'i" in America.
Sadly, the Bigfoot shotglasses did not have the amusing 1776-2026 written on them.
This is the format I desire.
AMERICA
1776-2026
is typically used for obituaries. Curious fun fact, there.
Also, I'm pretty sure this is a shotglass, but that little scooper cup next to it is for 30g of protein power. Good call, Chinese factory dude. I also feel like this is the correct American liquor measurement.
Normally I have feelings about this stuff but I don't shoplift where I get my drinks every few days.
Now I feel like it takes explaining. This stuff doesn't appear as "cheap Chinese crap" to me, like how it's complained about. It's the cheap American-commissioned crap from a Chinese factory, about the same quality I'd see with free stuff from parades and festivals.
That means someone went to a factory on ali baba or wish or something and intentionally placed an order for thousands of monkey US flag lanyards. They saw a butterfly bandana and said "yep, muh FREEdumb!" They intentionally bought these things and purchased a display for all this stuff, as a money-making enterprise.
And it worked, too. At least a couple bucks at a time, but it worked. This shot glass belongs on some altar to drink and charge with every refill.
I am tired of box mixes and Bob's Red Mill recipe is so intolerably dry. I did like Martha's buuut after a few months in the package, it gets this weird chemical taste??? Like. It *smells* chemical, coming out of the pack.
I don't Wanna.
But I don't have a lot of energy to do more than very, very basic maintenance cleaning and admin stuff like budgeting. Doctor-related stuff takes a LOT of my "useable time." I don't do homemade stuff nearly as much anymore, a huge blow to me because I used to make almost every meal from straight ingredients.
So I needed a recipe that tastes good, stays moist, and doesn't go bad in two days after baking. Or something I can freeze in very small portions and defrost later.
It *doesn't* use a premade flour blend, which may stop some people. This is because I'd really like one but gluten-free flours all have different functions and drawbacks. Most widely-available GF flour blends are rice-heavy with pea or soy protein blended in. Cool, but rice is not the ingredient you want a lot of here, and peas and soy are one of the top allergens in the country (legumes.) Also I can taste it.
The Recipe:
This is actually a combination of two different recipes. My Gluten-Free Kitchen has a lot of notes on "whys" of different ingredients. The Celiac Kitchen has a different method and shows you how to layer a pan with parchment.
1c cornmeal - I use Bob's Red Mill, which is fairly accessible. This is medium/rough-ground cornmeal so if you don't soak it, it will come out grainy.
1c flour - if I have a premade GF flour on hand, cool. If not, check * below.
1c milk + 1 tbsp lemon juice
2 eggs (room temperature)
1tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2c melted butter
1/2c caster sugar (americans, this is 'regular' sugar)
1tbsp honey
9"x13" glass pan, greased, or muffin tin. I don't have to grease the silicone muffin tray but if yours is metal, grease it or use paper cups.
Mix cornmeal and milk + lemon juice. Soak ~1 hour (max.) This will let the cornmeal soften and the milk come to room temperature, which makes a difference for GF baking. My mixing bowls have lids, so I put that on and don't worry about it.
In another bowl, mix the butter and sugar first. Then the eggs, salt, and honey.
Mix this with the cornbread and milk/lemon juice. Stir in the baking soda and regular flour.
if you don't have regular GF flour but you do have some various flours on hand:
1/2c brown rice flour (fiber, nutrients, structure)
1/4c white rice flour (not glutinous type)
1/8c tapioca or sweet potato starch (tapioca- chewyness, potato- fluffyness)
1/8c tapioca or corn starch
1/8th tsp xanthan gum (binder; too much is gummy)
optional: add a spoon of oat flour (retains moisture and provides nutrients) and ground flax seed (fiber)
It's a little over 1c but it won't matter. It doesn't need to be too precise when it's a tablespoon or two of flour for this recipe.
Prep your pan.
Preheat the oven to 375f.
Pour in your batter. It can sit a few minutes while your oven preheats. Mine takes maybe 20mins or so, which I feel might be slow but it's an older oven and the electrical in here sucks.
I try to use the time to do other things. The cornmeal sitting for an hour can be used for mixing the other stuff, but also for getting ahead on washing the dishes. You're going to be there ANYWAYS, so might as well.
Bake for about 21-25mins for muffins.
These are GF, so you need to plan to freeze any that aren't eaten in 2-3 days or they'll get moldy. They freeze well, though! Bread keeps 2-3 months. They can also later be chopped up for cornbread crusts, like for casseroles or something.
my friend hasn't really ever gotten into comics, which is fine, i never had money to afford them (and also little opportunity to buy them.) compendiums from secondhand shops are my friend.
x-men has had an endless number of reboots and retcons and whatever. it interests me to see what people do with the ghostly basics of story lines and characters. and what they don't do, which characters are incredibly interesting and somewhat fleshed-out, but that these reboots and cartoons seem to consistently avoid or tokenize.
maybe that's why i don't care about fanfic canon *as much* (although i get annoyed when a character is not at all resembling the character in original concepts.) x-men franchise, all of american long-running comics really, are basically just teams of artists pairing up with fanfic writers who get published on the official house name.
so anyways, i decided to go back and watch my fave live-action x-men movie. i hated the prequels tbh, and the 'days of future past' version where everyone is suddenly hot and young again (ahhhh the Black Widow treatment, one more reason to hate late 2000s-early 2010s cinema) but i liked the hated X2.
there was so much more they could have done there, but like the Simpsons, it was written as if viewers should already know a lot about the story and also like there didn't need to be continuity, in the way the Simpsons doesn't really need continuity, which was... jarring. it isn't Great. it's like if JJ Abrams did a Star Trek, but with X-Men.
but I liked that they pulled in Nightcrawler as a main character, instead of relegating him to "Catholic Magical Negro, but not Black, so it's okay." check out the 90s cartoon to see what I mean: he was in two episodes, and the first one that introduced him actually made his entire arc into a spiritual life lesson for wolverine. the other served no growth or change of character for him; it was a spiritual life lesson for mystique.
x2 shows him as an intelligent, sweet guy who is isolated through wounding. his "self harm" as an empowering choice made as a reaction to literally being demonized by others. he has an AMAZING action scene which really takes advantage of his full powers (of the time.) He tries to clear his name after someone (very skillfully) using him to attack the US president. unlike what they did to MY GIRL STORM*, they "let" him keep his german accent. also, alan cumming does speak german.
*storm, a kenyan princess who's dad is from harlem, was not allowed her south african speech patterns because Reasons. what, "people" couldn't understand her? S Africa made the character recognisably african while mericanized. but everyone is supposed to understand a german accent. s african english is practically england-english, are you fucking kidding me, but ANYWAYS (and also thank you Halle Berry for trying to push it and I am so sorry Hollywood did you dirty.)
x-men 97 was condensed into WAY TOO FEW episodes to explore *anything* but nightcrawler was there, *sometimes* even to be something besides the spiritual consolation/priest to others! he tri-wielded swords against super sentinels. so that was cool.
there could be a whole video essay on why i adore nightcrawler but 1) i am lazy/energy inefficient 2) i would need to learn how to do all that 3) i don't feel like it
ANYWAYS
sometimes whatever is playing while i sleep influences dreams i have
while it was very short, thanks to overheating and Eris the Destroyer, it was fun watching a 90-something year old (but multiply de-aged) man mentally go through the blue screen of death. You kids, BSOD is something that happened to windows a lot in the Before Times, look it up.
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the premise started out with waking in some kind of lab, like the perpetually-useful 'medical room' or hospital-type single bed and lots of equipment that the xavier mansion has for easy plot purposes.
i'd been in some kind of general mutant conflict, the kind that leaves regular fucking people with exploded houses and crushed cars and shit. nothing special. except that someone decided i was special because i grabbed him and told the cops/FoH (a hate group, like how IRL cops are sometimes also KKK or Proud Boys) he was my boyfriend and got seriously hurt in the conflict. i was believable enough so they let us go. i kind of remembered figuring out how to use the emergency number on his phone and not much after.
some person was in the room when i woke up. there were some general questions, they'll let me go soon, usual crap. then another guy came in and started asking very different questions, like who i knew, what happened, what was i thinking, did i know that guy was a mutant, do i have FoH contacts, why did they leave us alone instead of capturing us?
no one looks unordinary so far. no costumes, no powers noticeably used. everything hurts, no one would tell me where the fuck i am, the lights are too bright, and i'm getting more dead-set against whatever angle this guy is pushing.
i don't know anybody or anything. i saw a guy, he was hurt in one of the blasts from those douchebags fighting, i grabbed him, i ain't letting some fuckass cops take him for no reason. that's all. fuck you, fight me.
can't i tell he was a mutant? no, dumbass, sometimes people have disfigurements and disabilities, the fuck do i need strangers to explain themselves for? whether i knew or not is irrelevant. what are you, the feds? who wants to know?
"he had scales"
"okay? so he has a skin condition."
"a condition that gives you scales."
"i don't know! do i look like a fucking dermatologist?"
"....."
"it was dark. things were exploding. there was blood everywhere. i didn't pay attention."
so we got into this pissy little bitch argument. a couple other people come in and watch by the door, looking like fucking enforcers. this dude wants me to tell him what i know about this mutant brotherhood and how i contacted them, and eventually, where magneto is based because apparently everyone who's on the team has that info. and that seems like a massive security breach to me, but fuck it, i'm not their manager.
oh, and if i don't, he's going to kill me.
ooooh i'm terrified. dude hasn't laid a hand on me and it seems real villains would at least give me some decent drugs. k bro. couldn't even get me a fucking zofran but yeah, let's skip to torture.
hurry up. wait, lemme contact someone first so they can get my stuff out of the apartment before rent's due.
no, i really don't know. or care. none of this has anything to do with me and if it did, i still wouldn't give you shit, just on principle.
one of the people by the door leaves and comes back with some big older dude in a dramatic costume. oh, good, they brought the actual magnet guy from television. how thoughtful. ... did this dude bring me a manager? is that what happened? is magneto HIS manager or mine? my head hurts too much for this and if everyone could turn off the lights and lower their voices, that would be good.
he asked me something like what my job is, what i remembered. let me know that the other guy was going to be okay. first thoughtful thing anyone's told me yet. they have a quiet talk for a moment before someone comes over to check the monitors and release me.
this is the closest i'd come to having health insurance in months.
he isn't evil. not really. but if this is his hired help, the guy needs to be more intimidating. idk, do some market research. practice on office and retail workers or something.
"hey, am I free to go? Your goon-"
"i'm not a goon."
" -fine, that guy said he was going to KILL me if I didn't tell him where Magneto was. I've never met you, but I'm still alive."
Magneto looks like he's about to short-circuit.
(goon says something)
"YOU PROMISED. I am so disappointed in you."
"It was a test! We were testing you to see if you were a threat!" Guy is exasperated. Ok, so Magneto is supposed to be HIS boss in this scenario. got it.
"Yeah, and it looks like you failed, buddy. YOU said you'd kill me if I didn't hand him over, I didn't, and you did not kill me. You're the one who fucked up. How am I wrong."
Both of us look at Magneto. Magneto looks like he is about to have the worst headache of his life. Like he is too damn old to be dealing with squabbling children, and absolutely Cannot with the whole conversation. Like if he could crash the asteroid or wherever we are into the earth and just be Done with it, he would.
goon asks "……… are you seriously arguing on this."
"I'm a late 80s millenial from Florida. Yes." i look at his boss. "christ, Mag, is this what you put up with? I'd be a terrorist too, if I had to deal with this. Not that I think you're a terrorist. If anything, you all have been terrorized."
the helmet protects him from telepathy. wonder if it protects him from having an aneurysm.
i think i was going to be handed off and perhaps meet 'scales guy' (whose name i didn't ask) but i woke up too soon.
I am destashing a LOT of my things! I don't do nearly as much art anymore. Most clothes are getting less comfortable, too. I need to pare everything down to better manage it.
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Medical stuff is piling up in terms of thousands of dollars since January. It's all on credit and comes due by... mostly July x.x Some in November, though. I'd like to actually work again but that's ... not possible. ::sighs::
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Pieces of old shirts and scraps of cheap felt. Entirely hand-stitched. Button + embroidery thread loop for closure. A shame I didn't have a lot of this to use; it's so, so soft. Well-worn fabrics often are.
Approx. 3.5in x 4in (or 8.5in, unfolded.)
I don't keep track of time because then the ADHD thing will say "IT TAKES TOO LONG!!! BORING! ABANDON AT ONCE!" and it'll go back into the "project drawer" forever.
Like unironically we should be subsidising at least 50% of their educations. What do you mean we have a shortage of doctors we should have surplus. What do you mean they’re being overworked they should be treated like royalty, they can fix human bodies
I don’t care if some of them are only doing it for the money. I don’t care if all of them are only doing it for the money. Intentions don’t matter to the stitches in my nana’s leg or the ten billion other lifesaving treatments we all get at a detriment to their finances and mental wellbeing. Entire cities are kept alive by just a couple thousand of them what are we DOINGGGGG
AND you should be able to become a doctor working no more than eight hours in a row and regularly getting eight hours of sleep. You should not have to sacrifice your own mental and physical wellbeing to become a doctor. I think that makes worse doctors actually.
back around march or so, i got a bunch of papers to fill out. i did that and submitted them online. it was an absolute hassle. they wanted me to go back through... i have to remember... (part of the reason I'm on disability...) EVERY doctor I've had for YEARS, all their info and what they treated me for, every job I've had in 10 years, etc.
good thing I keep that shit in an excel file.
last week, i got a letter that might be from wednesday. i get up to the mail hub every 2-3 days, so it isn't much earlier than wednesday, picked up on friday, 6/5.
it says I haven't filled out (unspecified) paperwork and unless I have it in by TODAY 6/8, they can cancel my disability payments.
there is no open paperwork on my online account. none. the site is actually pretty bare-bones for info, so it should have been easy to find. WHAT open paperwork?
i have been TRYING to call for an extension and to figure out wtf they're even talking about!
The phone number for the case worker doesn't have anyone answering, nor have I gotten a call back today. Calling the 'general number' without their extension doesn't reach anyone.
Calling the local office doesn't reach anyone AND the menus DON'T WORK!
That thing where it says "for this, press 2, for that, press 3..." Yeah, none of those actually work. What I can do is hit 1 to be sent a text link to set up an online account. I have that, thank you, it gives 0 answers, and also this is time-sensitive, innit.
so I called the office number a few times, trying different sequences in an attempt to get somewhere. no dice.
so now I'm calling the main SS call line. I typically wait 1-2 hours in these lines, or the phone hangs up on it's own because it's been on hold for too long.
most of the local offices now close at 4pm / 16:00. i don't know when "main social security" closes.
I started ~3pm. It's a few minutes to 4 now, so we'll see.
So. I called the main help desk. VERY fortunately, I got someone in only 20mins- highly unusual, but I'm grateful. They couldn't help but gave me a number for Determimations.
That office was actually very helpful and fast.
It looks like in late April, there was more paperwork and some doctors' offices never responded. That tracks. One of them took almost four months to resolve an insurance billing issue.
So the papers will be sent again. The caseworker will call by end of the week.
@fibro-memes posted this and yeah, I'm at the benefits stage.
Apparently I will get better from the genetic illness that tears apart everything in the body. Also these EXTENSIVE "redeterminations" are now to be done every year. Trump's admin is pushing for every 6 months.
i called SS Redeterminations again because it's been over a week and I haven't gotten that call back. I called the original office a few times and only left one or two messages.
Repeat messages clog voicemail boxes. Other people need to also leave those messages. Please do NOT leave a new message every single time you call these people. Maaaaybe leave one a week.
The second phone number I got last week actually reaches someone really quickly, and they looked into it.
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No new paperwork has arrived. It's been only 8 business days, but they insist that these letters arrive very quickly.
My last letter was dated 5/29, but arrived about 6/3 or 6/4. 6/5 was Friday. My deadline on there was before close on 6/8, which was Monday afternoon. SO. yeah lots of time there huh but OH-KAY. Yes, they are correct that 4 business days is decent arrival time. The gap between arrival time and response time is Lacking.
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Why wasn't any of this in the My Social Security portal?
Because they do not have access to anything on the Social Security website.
The Social Security Disability Redeterminations division has NO ACCESS to the Social Security website.
These are the people who can completely cut off my disability pension.
Which might also explain lack of callbacks.
With T-mobile, I had this issue where any doctors' or government office would call from an Avaya or Genysis system, which protects sensitive numbers for privacy by generating random 'mask' numbers, just like Google Phone. T-mobile has an internal spam filter that auto-blocks these. I cannot take that off. It is separate from their spam blocking service. No call would show in the call log. The phone would never ring. I would only know if I got a VM left- but the callback info either wouldn't work, or it would be far too late.
For example, one of my doctors would do phone calls if video quality was poor or a patient was unable to use it. But when T-mobile blocked the docs' outbound number, the masked one, I would "miss my appointment" by not picking up a call I never got. I'd have to call the OFFICE number back and make another appointment. Rinse, repeat.
So maybe that's the problem? Different carrier, same thing.
Nope, they don't use those anymore.
Okay. So..... .. .. .....? I usually leave the phone number multiple times on the same message, prefacing it slowly with "My number is..."
My phone number was changed over a year ago on the Social Security website. It's updated on other SS paperwork. Redeterminations does NOT have that info because they do not have access to it. They have info from years ago, the last time they reviewed my case.
Which means that even though I also left the current number on voicemails, they may only be calling the 'official' authorized number on my account AS THEY KNOW IT.
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christ. k. so. ... if the papers ain't here by next friday, next week, I'll call again.
I am destashing a LOT of my things! I don't do nearly as much art anymore. Most clothes are getting less comfortable, too. I need to pare everything down to better manage it.
Mercari - Lions.and.Exiles (link)
Remember that whenever you spend even $10 on someone, you're helping a real person- not giving Jeff Bezos more money for a new yacht. Regular folks actually appreciate that money.
Medical stuff is piling up in terms of thousands of dollars since January. It's all on credit and comes due by... mostly July x.x Some in November, though. I'd like to actually work again but that's ... not possible. ::sighs::
I feel no loss in listing things for sale. If I have any doubts, I just keep the item. Please don't feel like I'm "losing something." I'm really not! <3
I also added some items to ebay. Ebay has a longer listing process and more complicated categories, but a wider reach and more options for people who don't use mercari. <3
I am destashing a LOT of my things! I don't do nearly as much art anymore. Most clothes are getting less comfortable, too. I need to pare everything down to better manage it.
Mercari - Lions.and.Exiles (link)
Remember that whenever you spend even $10 on someone, you're helping a real person- not giving Jeff Bezos more money for a new yacht. Regular folks actually appreciate that money.
Medical stuff is piling up in terms of thousands of dollars since January. It's all on credit and comes due by... mostly July x.x Some in November, though. I'd like to actually work again but that's ... not possible. ::sighs::
I feel no loss in listing things for sale. If I have any doubts, I just keep the item. Please don't feel like I'm "losing something." I'm really not! <3
I also added some items to ebay. Ebay has a longer listing process and more complicated categories, but a wider reach and more options for people who don't use mercari. <3
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